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Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer
Capítulo 12, Página 1
One
reason
Tom
had
stopped
worrying
about
his
secret
troubles
was
because
he
found
something
new
to
focus
on.
Becky
Thatcher
had
stopped
coming
to
school.
Tom
tried
to
act
like
he
didn’t
care
for
a
few
days,
but
he
couldn’t
forget
her.
He
started
hanging
around
her
house
in
the
evenings,
feeling
miserable.
She
was
sick.
What
if
she
died?
The
thought
was
terrifying.
He
lost
interest
in
playing
war
games
or
pretending
to
be
a
pirate.
Life
seemed
dull
and
empty.
He
put
away
his
toys;
they
brought
him
no
joy.
His
aunt
noticed
his
change
in
behavior
and
became
worried.
She
was
a
fan
of
every
new
health
remedy
and
patent
medicine
that
came
out.
She
loved
experimenting
with
them,
not
on
herself,
but
on
anyone
who
seemed
unwell.
She
subscribed
to
all
the
health
magazines
and
believed
everything
they
said
about
how
to
live
healthily.
She
didn’t
notice
that
each
month’s
advice
often
contradicted
the
last.
She
was
honest
and
kind-hearted,
so
she
easily
believed
she
was
helping
others.
She
gathered
her
health
magazines
and
medicines
and,
armed
with
these,
she
went
around
trying
to
heal
everyone,
never
suspecting
she
might
be
causing
harm.
The
water
treatment
was
a
new
trend,
and
Tom’s
low
spirits
seemed
the
perfect
opportunity
for
her
to
try
it.
Every
morning
at
dawn,
she
took
him
to
the
shed
and
drenched
him
with
cold
water.
Then
she
scrubbed
him
with
a
rough
towel
until
he
was
alert.
She
wrapped
him
in
a
wet
sheet
and
covered
him
with
blankets
until
he
sweated
out
all
his
troubles,
as
Tom
put
it.
Despite
all
this,
Tom
became
more
melancholy
and
pale.
She
added
hot
baths,
sitz
baths,
showers,
and
plunges,
but
he
remained
as
gloomy
as
ever.
She
tried
a
strict
oatmeal
diet
and
blister
plasters.
She
treated
him
like
a
container,
filling
him
with
every
quack
remedy
she
could
find.
Tom
had
grown
used
to
this
treatment.
His
indifference
worried
his
aunt
deeply.
She
was
determined
to
change
this
at
any
cost.
She
discovered
Pain-killer
and
ordered
some
immediately.
After
tasting
it,
she
was
thrilled.
It
was
like
liquid
fire.
She
abandoned
all
other
treatments
and
relied
entirely
on
Pain-killer.
She
gave
Tom
a
teaspoonful
and
watched
anxiously.
Her
worries
vanished
instantly
as
Tom’s
indifference
disappeared.
He
reacted
as
if
she
had
set
him
on
fire.
Tom
realized
it
was
time
to
change
things.
This
life
might
have
seemed
exciting
in
his
sad
state,
but
it
was
becoming
too
chaotic.
He
thought
of
ways
to
escape
and
decided
to
pretend
he
liked
Pain-killer.
He
asked
for
it
so
often
that
his
aunt
finally
told
him
to
help
himself.
If
it
had
been
Sid,
she
wouldn’t
have
worried,
but
since
it
was
Tom,
she
secretly
watched
the
bottle.
She
noticed
the
medicine
was
disappearing
but
didn’t
realize
he
was
pouring
it
into
a
crack
in
the
floor.
One
day,
Tom
was
pouring
the
medicine
into
the
crack
when
his
aunt’s
yellow
cat
came
by,
purring
and
eyeing
the
spoon.
“Don’t
ask
for
it
unless
you
really
want
it,
Peter,”
Tom
said.”
But
Peter
seemed
to
want
it.
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